_JPG.jpg)
Robb Willer is a Professor of Sociology at Stanford University (with courtesy appointments in Psychology and the Graduate School of Business). He directs the Politics and Social Change Lab and co-directs the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society.
He studies politics, democracy, social change, and the social impacts of artificial intelligence.
Featured Videos

Voelkel, J. G., Ashokkumar, A., Abeles, A. T., Crawford, J., Fuller, K., Redekopp, C., Bongiorno, R., Campbell, T. H., Ecker, U., Feinberg, M., Hart, P. S., Hornsey, M., Jost, J., Kay, A., Leiserowitz, A., Lewandowsky, S., Maibach, E., Nisbet, E., Pidgeon, N., Spence, A., van der Linden, S., Wolsko, C. V., Willenbring, J. K., Malhotra, N., & Willer, R. In Press. A Registered Report Megastudy on the Persuasiveness of the Most-Cited Climate Messages. Nature Climate Change.

Frederiksen, K., Willer, R., Petersen, M. In Press. The Way Back After Backsliding: Public Opinion and the Restoration of Democracy. Comparative Political Studies.

Hall, M. E. K., Solomon, B. C., Voelkel, J. G., Stagnaro, M. N., Chu, J., & Willer, R. 2025. Durably Reducing Partisan Animosity through Multiple Scalable Treatments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Bai, H., Voelkel, J. G., Muldowney, S., Eichstaedt, J. C., & Willer, R. 2025. LLM-Generated Messages Can Persuade Humans on Policy Issues. Nature Communications.

Grayson, S., Feinberg, M., Willer, R., & Zaki, J. 2025. Ironic Effects of Negative Gossip in Driving Inaccurate Social Perceptions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.








